Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the friendly prodding of expert sailor "Corny" Shields, Chris-Craft, which has confined itself exclusively to "stinkpots," is considering going into the sailboat business. The leading U.S. naval architects, Sparkman & Stephens, have designed for Chris-Craft a 34-ft. fiberglass motor sailer. The new sailboat would give Chris-Craft an entry into a market even larger than the cabin cruiser trade...
Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...production (Pandro S. Berman), slick direction (Daniel Mann), solid but stolid performances, and a script (Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes) that reads as though it had been copied off a washroom wall. Heroine to hero, with a broad wink, as she glides seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety to get to bed with heroine: "Yeah, yeah. Man's gotta get his rest-an' he's gotta get it regular. Ha-ha!" Haha...
...Chicago as a "Munich," now calmly ignores the liberal program built into the G.O.P. platform. The Republican platform is, he says, the lesser of two evils. He hard-hits Lyndon Johnson as "the forgotten candidate." He writes off Jack Kennedy with sarcasm: "Sometimes I wonder how Jack gets that sailboat back to harbor...
Gable is a Philadelphia lawyer who flies to Naples to wind up the affairs of a black-sheep brother who has died when his sailboat capsized. Gable learns from Attorney Vittorio De Sica that his brother's estate consists of $14,000 worth of unsalable fireworks and the rocket-propelled Marietto, a by-blow for freedom conceived with the help of an unmarried lady who is also dead. The boy lives in Capri with his Aunt Sophia, a cabaret canary who describes herself aptly as Gable's "sister...